Video: Tom Brady’s leg-up slide kicks Ed Reed’s leg

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Thanks to the folks at NFL.com, we have some quick video of exactly what Ed Reed was talking about earlier today.

Reed, speaking to Houston media for the first time since having arthroscopic hip surgery, said the only play he could think of that might have led to the initial injury that eventually became a torn labrum in his hip was a play where a “certain quarterback” kicked him.

That certain quarterback was Patriots quarterback Tom Brady who was fined $10,000 for the play in question. Brady slid and thrust his right leg up as he moved forward. Reed, running at Brady, got kicked in the right thigh. The force pushed his right leg outward.

Afterward, Reed kneels on the ground. In the video clip, Reed doesn’t crumple to the ground ,but that doesn’t mean this issue didn’t start there and get worse over time as Reed indicated. Right around the time the Texans signed Reed, general manager Rick Smith said Reed was constantly working out or on his way to work out. It’s entirely possible that worsened something that started with this play.